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rather near and common neighbors for three or four years, 

 is thereby aided in making an energetic and more speedy 

 growth; and if the nurses are not placed too close to the per- 

 manent plants and are kept within due bounds they will 

 assuredly be beneficial in helping forward the plantation, and 

 can be taken up or cut out at any time. 



Exactly the same principle will apply to shrubs, among the 

 best of which privet, common laurel, common holly, etc., 

 may be found of the greatest use in encouraging them 

 onward for a few years, though greater care will be requisite 

 here to hinder the inferior sorts from trespassing on their 

 more aristocratic companions, otherwise they may do them 

 irreparable mischief. 



In those parts of the country where the prevalence of par- 

 ticular winds at certain seasons renders special shelter for 

 newly planted shrubs indispensable, this should be afforded 

 on the like basis to that previously recommended for general 

 protection. Light and air must not be excluded. And the 

 materials of shelter should be placed on one or two sides 

 only, shifting them about as the wind may blow injuriously 

 from any quarter. Such materials, also, as are partially 

 open and not perfectly impervious will be preferable, as 

 staying, and not merely turning, the violence of the wind. 

 Large spruce or pine branches stuck in the ground at a short 

 distance from the plants to be protected, or hurdles interlaced 

 with the same or with reeds or laths and placed about a 

 yard from the plants, will afford enough of shelter to them 

 without diminishing their hardihood. If necessary the same 

 kind of screen can be renewed in succeeding years. 



II. Edgings for Walks maybe exceedingly various, but 

 there are very few indeed that will give lasting satisfaction. 

 Grass is almost the only one that can be altogether com- 

 mended for pleasure gardens; and it is one which, if carefully 



